MANILA, June 17 (PNA) — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned against further land degradation worldwide, noting this problem can fuel up to 12 percent reduction in global food productivity and raise international food prices by as much as 30 percent.

MOSCOW, May 11 — The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has published stunning video online showing a timelapse of Mercury passing in front of the Sun, showcasing the first time a Mercury transit of the Sun has been captured by an orbiting satellite.

ILOILO CITY, May 11 — The election fever has not ended yet but for the people of Guimaras, it's time to set it aside and focus on the staging of its 23rd Manggahan Festival and celebration of the province’s 24th founding anniversary.

MANILA, May 11 (PNA) — The Information and Communications Technology Office (ICTO), an attached agency of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), will conduct free ICT trainings for new Education and ICT graduates.

LEGAZPI CITY, May 11 (PNA) -– The National Youth Commission (NYC) will convene selected delegates from all over the country next month for its 11th National Youth Parliament (NYP) with one slot given to a representative from this key Bicol city.

TAGAYTAY CITY, May 11 — The Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) – Public Management Development Program (PMDP), the National Government’s Career Executive Service Development Program, is now accepting nominations to the Senior Executives Class Batch 5 (SEC 5) which is set to open on June 20, 2016.

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, May 11 (PNA/Xinhua) — Urgent and broadened action is needed to avoid increasing costs and impacts of global warming and to adapt effectively to climate change, climate experts told delegates from over a hundred countries meeting here for a three-day conference on climate change.

SYDNEY, May 11 — The smell of dead corals from the mass coral bleaching event occurring on Australia's Great Barrier Reef is masking the predators to the tropical damsel fish that call the reef home, Aussie researchers warned on Wednesday.